Nancy Henry

Professor

Biography

Nancy Henry joined the faculty in the fall of 2008. Her research and teaching interests are in Victorian literature with special emphases on nineteenth-century cultures of finance, colonialism and imperialism. She also has interests in textual criticism, biography and the life and writings of George Eliot.

Education

Ph.D. The University of Chicago
M.A. The University of Chicago
B.A. Stanford University

“’Rushing into Eternity’: Suicide and Finance in Victorian Fiction.” Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture. Edited by Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt. Indiana University Press (2008).

Events

The Nineteenth-Century Seminar is pleased to announce that Deidre Lynch, Professor of English at Harvard University, will give a public lecture on Monday, April 13 at 3:30pm, in McClung 1210. Her talk is entitled “Pride and Prejudice by Numbers.” Since the publication of The Economy of Character: Novels, […]

The University of Tennessee’s final Writers in the Library event of the academic year will feature readings by student winners of the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Awards. Readings from the winning works will take place in the Hodges Library […]

On April 9 at 4 pm, The UT Center for the Study of Social Justice and the UT Committee on Social Theory will present a panel discussion of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, the newest book by journalist and activist Naomi Klein. […]

News

CONGRATULATIONS TO CHANCELLOR’S AWARD WINNERS: We would like to congratulate the members of the Department of English who received awards at the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet held on April 8th: Katy Chiles, Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award and Research and Creative Achievement-Professional […]

The English Department is pleased to announce the 2015 winners of our Creative Writing Awards. The English Department recently awarded prizes for graduate writing in fiction and in poetry and in four undergraduate writing categories. JOHN C. HODGES GRADUATE WRITING […]

Each year the Undergraduate Committee in the Department of English chooses at least twelve of its undergraduate majors to receive undergraduate scholarships, including the Mangam Merit Scholarships. Awards are given based on the information provided in the application, including but […]

SIGMA TAU DELTA INVITES APPLICATIONS: Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society, is inviting applications. In order to qualify for membership a student must have completed two courses in English in addition to freshman writing, have a 3.0 GPA and […]

Publications

Professor Katy L. Chiles’s Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America was published by Oxford University Press in January 2014. As surprising as it might seem now, during the late eighteenth century many early Americans asked themselves, “How […]

The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography By Nancy Henry The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. Henry’s new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research […]

Marilyn Kallet’s The Love that Moves Me is a collection of love poems inspired by Dante’s Inferno, as well as by Rimbaud’s relationship with Verlaine, and by Orpheus and Eurydice. These days Beatrice and Dante find themselves in France, Indiana, […]

Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation’s leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century […]